Roger Williams: “I know about the need of these skilled workers, and our country is facing a growing skills gap.”

This important legislation will hold these fraudsters accountable, and I urge my colleagues to support it. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Main street is facing a dire labor shortage, with 90 percent of businesses reporting few or no qualified applicants in August.

There has been a significant shortage in skilled labor across the country for way too long.

All of us are going to get the message out. It really has great timing from our standpoint, because now we can compare socialism, Marxism, communism with what Texas values are all about and American values: capitalism and free markets.